Yann Dirson wrote: > 1. Main clause says: "You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of > SNNS's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you > conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate > copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the > notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; > and give any other recipients of SNNS a copy of this license along > with SNNS." > > The "conspicuously and appropriately publish..." reminds me of the > advertisement clause in original BSD - is it as bad, or not ?
I think it just means you should not remove lines saying "copyright somebody", which seems fair enough. > 2. The "You may not distribute modified copies of SNNS. You may, > however, distribute your modifications as separate files (e.,g. patch > files) along with the unmodified SNNS software." reminds me of the TeX > licence. But here they talk about "SNNS", not "SNNS source code" as > in other parts. That seems to imply that binaries built from modified > SNNS cannot be redistributed. Is it just a wrong interpretation on my > part ? I interpret it the same way. According to DFSG, License should explicitly allow distribution of modified binaries, and this license does not explicitly allow them. I suggest asking for a clarification. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]